From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>, Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Inferior command line arguments
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:19:00 -0000
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X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00437.html

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

Daniel> As much as I'd prefer '--' (those objections, while completely
Daniel> correct, could be overcome with a bit of work; I admit I
Daniel> hadn't thought of them), I'd rather see '---' than --args --,
Daniel> because it doesn't allow for the confusing semantics of
Daniel> '--args' without the '--'.

I'm not really a fan of `---'.  It doesn't seem visible enough.

I might be able to make `--args' end argument processing.  Then you
would write:

    gdb --args gdb -nw

and debug `gdb -nw'.  What would you think of this?

Tom